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No, I don’t mean the oportunists that destroyed and pillaged for fun or profit. I’m not about to equate anarchism with this sort of violence, since in my own way I am also an anarchist (of the individualist, free market or capitalist type, if you prefer) and since most of the greek people I know that call themselves anarchists are not the main kind of people that I saw doing the looting yesterday.

Let’s accept, for the sake of a “discussion” with greek left-leaning anarchists, that violence against public and private property (from trashbins to police cars and from newspapers stands to banks) is usefull as an attack on “the system”, sometime for symbolic reasons, sometime in order to force the authoritarians to display their authoritarian nature more evidently and other times as defence or revenge for state violence. This is a view many greek anarchists believe to some degree or another.Continue reading →